200 Cigarettes
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 26, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
14
Negative:
9

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
37
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
This vapid '80 punk party reeks of 200 Cigarettes.
30
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
As forgettable as a puff off a generic-brand butt: filtered, flavored, and ultimately unsatisfying. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorJohn Christian Hoyle
David Chappelle's performance as a cabbie is amusing, but the film should have been packaged with a Surgeon General's Warning - "Cigarettes is bad for you." Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
Not much of a plot, but the trouble is that Shana Larsen's script, as directed by Risa Bramon Garcia, isn't very deep. Worse, none of the self-absorbed characters are that likable nor are they funny. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Dreadful...Maybe another 200 cigarettes would have helped; coughing would be better than some of this dialogue. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
The film is filled with actors you want to see -- just not in this thing. Read full review
10
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Dismally unfunny...It's clear from the first few minutes that the performers are fighting an uphill battle against lame material, and the situation never improves as pic labors on. Read full review
0
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A twentysomething comedy with a brain-dead script, unflattering lighting and 16 performers in search of a scriptwriter...[It] feels like one-sixth of an idea stretched to the breaking point. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
More of a throwback to a period in the '70s when big-screen comedies like "FM" and "Thank God It's Friday" seemed to take all their cues from bad sitcoms, putting rice-paper-flat characters into vibrant settings and giving them nothing to do but exchange faux witty dialogue without the much-needed cues of a laugh track. Read full review
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